Metallic studding and metal yoking-clip for supporting and securing plaster-boards together in partition construction.



METALLIU STUDDING AND METAL YOKING CLIP FOR SUPPORTING AND SECURING PLA STER BOARDS TOGETHER IN PARTITION CONSTRUCTION.

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AEPLIOATIOII FILED JAN. 4, 1913.

Patented Feb. 10, 1914.

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MARVIN H. TESTER, OF DENVER. COLORADO, ASSIGNOR TO THE M. H. JESTER INVESTMENT COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF COLORADO.

METALLIC STUDDING AND METAL YOKING-CLIP FOR SUPFOBTING AND SECURING PLASTER-BOAR-DS TOGETHER IN PARTITION CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed January 4, 1913. Serial No. 740,177.

To a le/mm 'i/ may eon/urn 7 Be it known that I, Manvix ll. Jns'ren, a citizen (it the United States of America, residing in the city and co inty of Denver and State. oi? Colorado, have invented a new and useful Illetallic Studding and Metal Yoking- Clip for Supporting and Securing Plaster- Boards Together in Partition Construction, of which the 'l'ollmving is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in metallic studdiug and metal yokiug clips for supporting and securing plaster boards together in partition walls, into skeleton partitions adapted to receive plastering materials in constructingplastered partition walls in buildings.

The object ol? the invention is to provide av cheap and simple clip for securing plaster boards to metal channel bar studs, so that the said boards may be arranged with either the straight or staggered form of joint. Further, to provide a clip which is fric tioually held upon the stud. thus enabling any number of clips to be secured in postlioii on the studding before the plaster boards are attached, thereby greatly reducing the time and labor otherwise required in such work. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyin drawings, in which:

igure 1, is a front view illustrating a plurality of plaster boards secured to studding so as to form straight or unbroken joints. 'Fig. 2, is a similar view showing the staggered joint arrangement. Fig. 3, is a horizontal sectional. view illustrating the application of the form of clipused when the plaster boards are connected to the studding in staggered form. Fig. fl, is a perspective view of the form of clip shown in .Fi 3. Fig. 5,, is an edge view of the same, showing a portion of a stud to which the clip is secured. and a portion of aplasteu board clamped to the chp. Fig. 6, is a hor1- zontal sectional view showing the appliation of the form of clip employed, when the boards are arranged with straight joints. Fig. 7, is a perspective view of the clip shown in Fig. 6. Fig. is a perspective View showing a form of clip used iii-joining a portion at right angles to another parti tion. Fig. 9, is a horizontal sectional view illustratingv the application of the clip shown in Fig. 8. And Fig. 10, is a horizontal sectional view showing a clip employed in making a joint in the partition around eal pipe.

Similar letter of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings,the numeral 1 designates a metal stud, )referably a chan nel bar stud, as I preferab y use the channel bar form of stud in preference to other forms of metal stud, such as fiat metal-bars, T bars, 2 bars, or V bars.

2 designates a metal yoke-shaped clip, which is formed to fit over the; channel bar and extend beyond it a short distance, and

a vertiover its free ends I place a plate 3, which is provided with an aperture 4:, in its center,

that is made to permit the yoke clip to extend through it and fit snugly in it. This aperture is formed by cutting slots through the plate in such a way as to release two equal sized tongue portions 5, which are bent dmvnwardly and backwardly so as to lie alongside 01'' and to fit snugly and pref erably firmly enough against the opposite sides of the yoking clip to require pressure of the thumb of a )artition erector to force the yoke-shaped clip through the aperture and between and through the aperture in the plates, thus making a self-sustaining, combining and holding fit. between the yoke clip, the channel bar, and the plate, which permits them to stay assembled together wherever placed along the 'ertical heightof the channel bars without; slipping apart from each other, which is a "feature of inrportance when erecting partitions, ,as it enables one man to erect partitions without any assistance, as would be the case it these parts were so loosely fitted together as to slip easily apart, in which case they would have to be held by one man while another placed the plaster boards 7 in position to be securely keyed or locked to them.

4 The plaster boards 7 are thin boards made of plaster of Paris. and other-materials, and are extensively manufactured and used in buildings as a background or support for stucco and other plasteripg ma terials. These boards are made in yarious sizes as to width, length and thickness, those of about a quarter inch to five-sixteenths of 11 inch by two feet square, or two feet bythree feet long, or eighteen inches wide by two feet or thirty inches" lbng, being most 'enei lly used for partilion woi'lr. i ably use plaster boards of llVQ-SlXtQClllIll inch thickness by two feet WlCQ and three feet in length, with thcchannel bar yoke clip construction illustrated.

The clips 2 are about twice the length of the width of the channel barsstuds 1, so that when they are placed upon the channel bars their free ends extend beyond the said bars listance greater than the thickness of a board, and these ends are provided 8, which are so positioned that winters distant from the plates nee corresponding to the thickness of a board. llhcn the boards are placed the plates 3, with their ends abutinst the sides of the clip 2, as shown 3, the ends of the boards will par- '.C.-}2l.l the holes 8, and the boards l to the plates by passing a suitno, such as a, wire nail 9, through l3, and the space between the 1 margin oil the holes and the surface ilaster boards is less than the diame nails, the insertion of the nail e of the boards to be securely to the plates 3. he form of clip illustrated in Figs. 3, l, and 5, is employed when the plaster board. are arr-ange in staggered form as shown by 2. this arrangement the studs do not lie between the adjoining ends of the boards, but are back of the plates '3, against which one boards rest, so that they permit If the boards to be secured withv the adjoining ends each alternate row in the same verno, or so as to form staggered joints. i eliminating an unbroken joint 1 irouo'hout the length of the studs, the tendo the cracking of the plaster at these is greatly lessened. When boards are used ct. a length correto the space between three studs, ids are secured to the intermediate l by forming holes 2 in them centrally of length, through which the ends of clips the intermediate stud may pass, and 9 are passed through the ends of the as in the manner above described for illustrated one clip at the center of each ooard, but I may employ two clips, placing line with the clips at the ends of the board.

e. 6 and 7 is illustrated the form of clip loyed in securing the plaster boards iglit or unbroken joints, which arrangeinent is shown in 1. In this argeniont l employ the yokeshaped clip 2 l clamping the boards at their centers. 1 have the width of a channel bar stud, or slightly less than the thickness of a plaster board, as shown by Fig. 6. Vertical parallel slots 13 are cut in the end wall of the channel 11, to permit the insertion of the ends of the clip 2, and the strip 14-, released by the cutting oi these slots, is outwardly bowed, as clearly shown by Fig. 7. In p'actice, the clips 2 are sprung upon the studs, and the plates 10 are placed on the studs, and over the projecting ends of the clips, so that the said projecting ends extend through the slots 13, in the channel of the plate, on each side of the bowed strip l l. By forming the plate 10, with a channel which fits over the stud, the wings 12 of said plate are positioned on a, line with the center of the width of the stud, instead ofin line with the front side of said stud, as in the plate shown in Fig. 3, and only half the width of the stud extends beyond the back of the plate, a coat of plaster of less thickness can be used in this arrangement, than in that shown in Fig. 3, and consequently a thinner partition ctnstructed. T he plaster boards are placed against the Wings 12, with their ends abutting against the studs, which in this arrangement lie between the said ends, and the boards are secured or clamped to the plates by passing wire nails through the holes in the ends of the clips and beneath the bowed strips 14:, as clearly shown in F ig. 6, thus securing the boards so that their ends form straight or unbroken joints.

In Fig. 8, is illustrated a perspective View of a clip 15, which is employed in connecting the ends of plaster boards of one partition to those of another partition extending at. right angles to the first partition, and this clip may be employed at adjoining corners, or at, any point between two corners as shown by F ig. 9. These clips comprise substantially S-shaped portions, the folds 16 of which are adapted to engage the ends of plaster boards of a partition 17, while the opposite folds 18 are adapted to fit over one ,ol. the studs of a partition 19 atright angles to the partition 17, and the folds 1'8 terminate in right angled wings 20, which bear upon the ends of the plaster boards of the partition 19, and form a bracing medium. ll ith clips of this character, a partition can 1 o conveniently and ellectively joined to another partition extending at right angles thereto, as will be fully understood by refercncc to Fig. 9. 4

In Fig. 10, is shown a clip 21, by means of which an oil-set can be formed in a partition where a vertical pipe occurs. he clips 21 are Sshaped and their folds 22 are adapted to receive the ends of plaster boards 23, which come in line with a pipe 24, which may be either a steam, water, or gas pipe, and the folds .25 of these clips receive short boards 26, which town a connecting medium for the opposing ends of the boards 23, as shown, by which an intervening space is provided to receive the said pipe 24. Then the plasteringis applied, the pipe and board 26 are concealed.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a securing device for plaster boards as specified, the combination with studding, ot U-shaped clips thereon of greater length than the width of the studs, with holes in their free. ends, plates on said studs having central apertures through which the ends of the clips extend, and nails extending: through the holes in the ends of said clips thereby to clamp the ends of plaster boards to said plates.

In a securing device for plaster boards as specified, the combination with studs, of U shaped clips in clamping engagement with the studs, the free ends of which extend beyond the studs and are apertured, centrally apertured plates on the extended ends of the clips in clamping engagement therewith, and bearing upon the studs, and nails passed through the apertured ends of the clips thereby to clamp the ends of plaster boards. against the plates.

3. in a securing device for plaster boards as specified. the combination with a stud, of a clip straddling said stud, an apertured plate fitting over said clip, and a nail passed through the clip at a distance from said plate "for clamping the ends of plaster boards to said plate.

4-. in a securing device for plaster boards as specified, the combination with a stud, of an apertured channeled plate engaging one side of the stud, a U-shaped clip posite side of the stud, the ends of Which extend through the aperture of and beyond. the channel of said plate and are apertured, and a nail which is passed. through the said apertures thereb to clamp the ends of plus ter boards to the plate.

In a securing device .ior plaster boards.

as specified, the combination with a stud, oi an apertured plate thereon having a channel portion which receivesthe stud, a U-shaped clip on the opposite side of said stud, having apertured ends which extend and provided through the apertured on the op throughtthe aperture of said plate and beyond said channel, a nail receiving rneinher on the channel, and a nail which is passed beneath said member, and through the apertures in the clip, thereby to clamp plaster boards to the plate. I

6. In a securing device for as specified, the combination a plate having a longitudinal plaster boards with a stud, of channel which fits over said stud and having parallel slots therein, a U-shaped elip'on said stud having apertured ends which extend through said slots, and a clamping element which passes through said apertured ends.

7. In a securing device for plaster boards as specified, the combination with a stud, at a plate having a channel portion in engagement with the stud and having parallel slots, and a strip formed by said slots, which is outwardly bowed, a U shaped clip on the stud havingapcrtured ends which extend through said slots, and a nail which is passed ends beneath said outwardly-bowed strip. j

8. In a securing device for plaster boards, the combination with a stud, of clip-plates having means engaging said stud and having extended portions of greater length than the width of the stud and provided with.

apertures in the ends remote from said stud, plates on said studs having apertures through which said remote ends of the clips. extend, and keys in the apertures of the ends of said clips for securing the plaster boards against said plates. 9. In asecuring device for plaster boards, the combination with a stud, of clip-plates having means engaging said stud and'ha ing extended portions of greater length than the width of the stud, plates on said stud having apertures through which pass the ends of said clips remote from ..aid stud, and means at said remote ends of the clips forsecuring the plaster boards agaiist said plates. I

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARVIN H. JESTER.

Witnesses a G. Sanonn'r ELLIOTT, Y ELIZABETH Srarrn. 

